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# mendicant

«mendicant» in Mova's school dictionary: **A beggar, someone who lives by asking others for food or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (mendicant, mendicants); also adjective; old use

### meaning for a pupil

A beggar, someone who lives by asking others for food or money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mendicant/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In fairy tales a poor traveller who asks for bread, often a prince or witch in disguise.

### examples

- An old mendicant knocked at the door and asked for bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mendicant/#x1)
- The prince dressed as a mendicant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mendicant/#x2)
- The mendicant wore torn rags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mendicant/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mendicant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mendicant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.